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Society Today Bring Back
674 wordsIn Jeff Jacoby's essay "Bring Back Flogging, " he states why he thinks that flogging should be brought back in our society today. He backs his ideas up very well as to why he thinks them. He catches the attention of the readers very well by introducing his essay with examples. The example he gives also defines what flogging means also. In his title, bring back flogging, he tells his readers his thesis. This is a clear title that describes his point in writing his essay. He tells us that the bigg...
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Men And Women Man And A Woman
783 wordsCommunication is the foundation of every relationship. Whether it is a relationship between a man and a woman or a relationship between people of the same gender, communication is the best way and maybe the only way for people to express their feelings to their partner. When a good communication system does not exist, the relationship could no longer exist either because the two sides do not understand each other anymore. Communication keeps the both sides inform about everything. Even though co...
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Justice Through Alternative Methods Of Punishment
692 wordsThroughout the years and around the globe there have been several types of punishment enforced upon criminals. Punishments ranging from calcification, flogging, whipping, caning, and of course imprisonment have been used. Imprisonment, the punishment of choice in the United States, does not serve the purpose Americans expect it to. Punishment should invoke remorse on the part of the criminal. Americans expect criminals to be punished in such a manner that it would present a criminal from committ...
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Death Penalty States Man Who Kills
1,900 wordsThe most severe form of punishment of all legal sentences is that of death. This is referred to as the death penalty, or capital punishment; this is the most severe form of corporal punishment, requiring law enforcement officers to actually kill the offender. It has been banned in numerous countries, in the United States, however an earlier move to eliminate capital punishment has now been reversed and more and more states are resorting to capital punishment for such serious offenses namely murd...
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Capital Punishment Is A Just Action
1,393 wordsA strong case can be made in principle for and against capital punishment. The argument in favor of capital punishment should be based on justice and the nature of a moral community; this is the definition of a just action. People who commit the act of first-degree murder should be brought to justice. Being brought to justice requires that each person respect the life and liberty of others. Respecting the life and liberty of others means that we as United Sates citizens have freedom of thought a...
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Terminally Ill Patients Care Facilities
629 wordsToday there are five to ten thousand comatose patients in long term care facilities (Wheeler A 1). There are countless elderly people in care facilities that have repeatedly expressed a desire to die. There are countless terminally ill patients that have also begged for death. Should these people be allowed to die, or should they be forced to keep on living? This question has plagued ethicist's and physicians throughout the years. In the Netherlands, courts have begun to permit the administratio...
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Stricter Laws First Amendment
767 wordsShould There Be Stricter Laws on Pornography? Three articles have opposing viewpoints on laws concerning pornography. All three authors argue their side of this issue while having many of the same ideas as their opposing writers. The first is, I am a First Amendment Junkie, by Susan Jacoby. Susan has written many articles on womens issues for popular magazines such as Glamour, Mc Calls, and The Nation. This article appeared in her syndicated Hers column in 1978. Jacoby believes that certain rest...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Form Of Art
774 wordsFreedom of Pornography? Free Speech means exactly what it says, the right to express any opinion in public without censorship or restraint by the government. There have been many questions on the topic of Free Speech and Pornography. Many people feel that pornography should not be included in Free Speech, but if someone limited what their idea of free speech was, then wouldn t that be illegal? There are many statistics proving that pornography does not cause violence against women, and that men ...
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Corporal Punishment Violent Offenders
1,327 wordsBring Back Flogging This essay by Jeff Jacoby illustrates an authors use of ironic sarcasm otherwise known as satire to defend and illustrate his platform on his position. Jacoby uses in this essay verbal irony (persuasion in the form of ridicule). In the irony of this sort there is a contrast between what is said and what is meant. Jacoby s claim in simple is he believes that flogging should be brought back to replace the more standard conventional method of the imprisonment of violent and non-...
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